http ://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/iau/cbet/003900/CBET003962.txt Electronic Telegram No.3962 Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams INTERNATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL UNION CBAT Director: Daniel W. E. Green; Hoffman Lab 209; Harvard University ; 20 Oxford St.; Cambridge, MA 02138; U.S.A. e-mail: cbatiau en eps.harvard.edu (alternate cbat en iau.org) URL http ://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/index.html Prepared using the Tamkin Foundation Computer Network SUPERNOVA ...

... Scientific Venues American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting American Astronomical Society meeting American Association of Physics Teachers meeting American Association of Variable Star Observers meeting .Astronomy Conference. ... Worth, TX University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE Yale University, CT Conventions/Special Interest Meetings/Other (James Randi's) "The Amaz!ng Meeting" (2003 - 2009), Las Vegas, NV, Ft. ... Diablo Astronomical Society, Concord, CA Mt. ...

. General Information . Media Files . Participants . Timetable . Local Information . Photos . We are glad to report that a timetable of the conference are now available on this website ( http://site2010.sai.msu.ru/timetable ) . On sections pages one can find lists of reports with abstracts. If you cannot find your report in timetable, please inform us. Also we ask all participants who haven't sent already abstracts to do this.

Astroimager John Chumack from Dayton, Ohio, took this image of Comet ISON (C/2012 S1) on October 18, while it was near reddish Mars and blue-white Regulus (Alpha Leonis). ... He set the camera's speed to ISO 400, placed it on a tracking mount, and, at 6:27 a.m., started a 366-second exposure. He reported, "ISON had cleared the trees around 6 a.m., but dawn started to flood the image with light, not to mention the city lights over D.C. and strong light from a nearly Full Moon. ... John Chumack ...

... Beyond New York City . ... Observing Resources for Amateur Astronomers - Part 1: Beginning Observers . ... A History of the First Forty Years of the Amateur Astronomers Association . ... The Board of Directors shall be the governing body of the Association. ... As soon as possible after the annual meeting of the Association (cf Article VII), and no later than May 31, the President shall convene a meeting of the Board of Directors, to which any new Directors-elect shall be specifically invited. ...

... The reduction system of observations FADPS (description in Russian) (Flexible Astronomical Data Processing System) for data of wide-band receivers of the first observation cabin of the radio telescope RATAN-600 had been created under the Unix-like operational system DEMOS for computers of the SM-1420-type (PDP/11) in 1987 for observation analysis and estimates of coordinates and flux densities of radio sources. ... FADPS: flexible astronomical data processing system at RATAN-600 in UNIX environment....

... Shustov B.M., Wiebe D.S. Dust expelling from the Galaxy ( abstract from the journal ). Astronomy Reports , 1995, 39 , 578-586 [AZh, 72 , 650-659]. Wiebe D.S., Shematovich V.I., Shustov B.M. Chemical and dynamical evolution of protostellar clouds: initial stages of collapse ( abstract from the journal ). ... Shustov B.M., Wiebe D.S., Tutukov A.V. Evolution of disk galaxies and loss of heavy elements into the intracluster medium. ... ApJ (Letters), 1998, 503 , L71-L74 ( astro-ph/9806155 ). ...

August, 2011, Odessa, Ukraine EVENTS: Monday, 22.08.2011 Arrival 09.00 ­ 22.00 Registration of participants 20.00 ­ 22.00 Evening session : , ( -), ( - «») Tuesday, 23.08.2011 06.05 09.00 09.00 11.00 13.00 13.15 14.30 15.50 16.20 18.00 19.00 19.55 21.00 06.06 09.00 11.00 11.30 13.00 14.30 16.30 18.30 19.53 ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ 13.00 11.00 13.00 13.15 14.30 15.50 16.20 ... Discussion 6 SECTION SESSIONS Section 1. ... 15.50 - 16.20 Coffee break 16.20 - 18.00 Section sessions .. ...

... Contacting and discussing with people sharing your interests, participating in night sky observations with telescopes as well as a large choice of astronomical books, magazines and video-tapes out of our club library. ... The seasons, the seeing ( a clear sky is not always associated to calm , stable air ) and most important how dark your observation site is. ... Therefore a dark site for observing is at least as important for deep sky observation as the diameter of your scope. ...

SAI VO . ... SAI CAS . ... Web Services . Catalog Access Services . ... Astronomical Thesaurus . ... RVO . ... This site is about the Virtual Observatory project in the Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow University ( SAI MSU ). We provide a public access to the growing set of astronomical services developed by the SAI RVO development team in accordance with the Virtual Observatory standards. ... At present SAI CAS provides ConeSearch, CrossMatch services and supports user uploaded data. ...

... Exposure Time Calculator (ETC) . Survey processing . ... VISTA is a 4-m class wide field survey telescope for the southern hemisphere, equipped with a near infrared camera (1.65 degree diameter field of view at VISTA's nominal pixel size) containing 67 million pixels of mean size 0.34 arcsec and available broad band filters at Z,Y,J,H,K s and a narrow band filter at 1.18 micron. A wide field visible camera, if constructed, could also be used on VISTA. ... Tile . ... ESO VISTA Public Surveys . ...

. Please enter the lightcurve FITS file name: . Lightcurve file: . Please note, the output dates are Barycentric-corrected Julian Dates expressed in Terrestial Time - BJD(TT). A similar FITS-to-ASCII lightcurve converter is available for SuperWASP data. If you have questions, bug reports or suggestions how to improve this service, please fell free to contact the author (Kirill Sokolovsky) via e-mail: kirx[at]scan.sai.msu.ru .

... 9) Oknyanskij V.L. 1994, "Optical-radio time delays in Q0957+561", Odessa Astronomical Publ., ... 11) Oknyanskij V.L. 1994, "Connection between X-ray and optical variability in NGC4151", in Proceedings of Int. Conf. ... 1994. 12) Oknyanskij V.L. 1994, "Connection between X-ray and optical variability in NGC4151", Astrophys. and Space Science, 222, p.157. ... 14) Oknyanskij V.L., van Groningen E., 1997, "Optical spectral variability of NGC4151 in 1990", Astronomical and Astrophys. ...

... Институт прикладной математики им. М.В.Келдыша . БАЛЛИСТИЧЕСКИЙ ЦЕНТР . О Центре . ... Баллистический Центр Института прикладной математики им. М.В.Келдыша РАН . Баллистический центр (БЦ) ИПМ им. М.В. Келдыша создан по предложению С.П. Королева и М.В. Келдыша в 1965 году. На него были возложены работы по баллистико-навигационному обеспечению (БНО) управления полетом пилотируемых кораблей и автоматических космических аппаратов научного и народно-хозяйственного назначения. ...

... The paper tracks basic evolution of the Soviet rocket and space industry after the 1946 and analyzes "genealogical trees" of the original enterprises (NII-88, NII-885, OKB-456, etc.) to reveal typical features of this evolution. ... The paper tracks basic evolution of the Soviet rocket and space industry after the 1946, when an original set of institutions was established. ... The study demonstrates, that the evolution of the Soviet rocket and space industry is more complicated, than usually...

News archieve . ... The YSC congratulates you with New Year! ... The representatives of the YSC made a presentation there and video presentation as a workshop report as well. ... We suggest you taking part in our annual summer students workshop "Space development: theory and practice." ... 26 July, 2006, Wednesday . ... The 9th International Students Workshop "Space development: theory and practice" was carryed out by Youth Space Center (BMSTU) with the support of the Russian Federal Space Agency. ...

This is a progress report on the 2dF QSO Redshift Survey as was presented at the Second Coral Seas Cosmology Meeting on Dunk Island, September 1999. Three talks about the survey were presented at the conference. The others were.... QSO Clustering and Large-Scale Structure , Scott Croom et al . QSO Evolution and the Luminosity Function , B.J. Boyle et al . | << - Meeting Proceedings | Talk Overview - >> | . Robert J. Smith, ">rsmith@mso.anu.edu.au Last modified: Fri Sep 24 11:39:02 EST 1999 .

21.10 news 887 MH 19/10/04 2:15 pm Page 887 news Russians fear privatization of state labs Bryon MacWilliams, Moscow Senior officials in Moscow are attempting to reassure Russian scientists about details of a planned reform, under which many hundreds of the country's state research institutes could lose their government funding. ... We agree that Russian science does need reform," says Boris Stern, a particle physicist at the academy's Institute for Nuclear Research in Moscow. ...